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RedHat: RHSA-2019-2166-01 Moderate: QEMU-KVM-MA Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 6, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical announces a patch update for libvirt addressing various vulnerabilities of moderate urgency for Ubuntu 20.04.
An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-ma packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM on the IBM z Systems, IBM Power, and 64-bit ARM architectures.
Security Fix(es):
* QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size (CVE-2018-17963)
* QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request (CVE-2019-6501)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix kernel-based virtualization qemu-kvm-ma

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17963 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6501 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: qemu-img-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.s390x.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.s390x.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64: qemu-kvm-common-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-ma-debuginfo-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-ma-2.12.0-33.el7.ppc64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:2166-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2166
Issue date: 2019-08-06

Topic

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat bug fix kernel-based virtualization qemu-kvm-ma

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64

Bugs Fixed

1636777 - CVE-2018-17963 QEMU: net: ignore packets with large size

1668160 - CVE-2019-6501 QEMU: scsi-generic: possible OOB access while handling inquiry request

1678898 - Run iotests in rhel77 qemu-kvm-ma build %check phase

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